Inverness remain third and keep European dreams alive

INVERNESS goal hero Nick Ross was thinking of Europe last night after his strike helped keep his side third in the Premiership.

PUBLISHED: PUBLISHED: 00:03, Sun, Jan 25, 2015

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“Europe’s at the back of our minds and that would be some achievement for this club,” he said. “And so would finishing the best of the rest. Everyone is talking about Aberdeen and Dundee United but that suits us because, hopefully, we can keep winning and kicking on from here.”

Boss John Hughes said: “Hamilton are having a wonderful season and I had a bit of trepidation about this one. They were coming off the back of a sore one against Partick Thistle in midweek, they were at home and they had a new manager but we wanted to keep the winning run going and we’ve done that.

“We had a bit of luck with the first goal but the second was us at our best. We might have had more but Michael McGovern and Billy McKay, pals from the Irish squad, had a bit of a ding-dong and Michael came out better this time with some good saves.”

It was four defeats in a row for Martin Canning and the new Accies boss said: “It’s not a habit I enjoy and I’ve told the players that.

“But right now it just seems that every break is going against us and the freakish first Inverness goal proved that.

“It’s so important at this level to get the first goal and that showed again because it allowed Inverness to sit back and catch us on the break.

“It’s disappointing and frustrating because I thought we dominated the first half but now we need to pick things up again and get back winning.”

Accies defender Stephen Hendrie, who last week missed out on a big-money move to West Ham, insisted he just had to get on with it in the hope that another chance will come.